A little help needed

I'm sure it is important. My recently deceased friend, Prince Abu Moketo of Nigeria, also needed that information. He left me a large portion of his wealth, but the criminals now in government are trying to take it from his estate. His will clearly left the money to me and I sent my bank account numbers to have it transferred.

I'll be doing some traveling as soon as I get the money. Perhaps we can get together for lunch, say in Morocco or Zurich and I can show you my authentic SS Card.

Good one, Edwin.

Ahh, that's nuthin'. I just got an email from Yasser Arafat's widow.

B.

.. and I just ot one from Yasser himself...

Huh? That doesn't quite make sense. I guess you're looking at a fax of the actual card itself?

They're, um, 2" x 3.5" or something along those lines. Let's see, your measurements scale out to about 2.5" x 5", roughly. That seems suspiciously large.

If you go to

If you are going to counterfeit a card, you want to be accurate. Now where do you want out money fraudulently sent to?

Yeah, I know. Egg on my face. Stooooopid. Thank you for not making a big production out of rubbing my face in it and smacking me in the head with a newspaper. Bad Silvan, bad!

Seriously? What's the scam on that one?

Yeah... Beat this... I got one from Yasser!!! Yasser Areufat that is. It was a weight loss spam.

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr.

Have I ever lied to you?

I think it was along the same lines as the Nigerian scam. Not sure, I don't keep that crap around very long.

B.

Don't know for sure, but how many people outside the US have to know the actual dimension of an authentic SS card?

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'd also be suspicious if I was passing the bank and a guy standing there asked if I knew the schedule of the armored car delivery.

I understood the point of that one. My question was regarding Buddy's reference to a scam from Yasser's wife.

Yup.

Now we'll just use some glue to hold things in place until the brads dry

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